Collaborative Research: Comparative Study of Women's Policy Offices: 1970-2000

这是一个跨国项目，旨在研究政府办公室提高妇女地位和促进基于性别的平等。五名美国学者将与来自其他11个国家的约30名研究人员合作，该项目自1995年以来一直在进行，研究与堕胎、卖淫、就业培训和妇女民主代表有关的立法过程，以及妇女在移民、经济结构调整和福利改革中的地位。本研究将运用政治学的比较研究方法，检视三个普遍假设：(1)妇女运动能否成功实现其目标，是否有赖于政府内部妇女政策办公室的干预；(2)妇女运动的成功或妇女政策办公室的效力是否取决于运动的资源和开放的政策环境，或两者兼而有之；(3)妇女运动能否在没有政策办公室干预的情况下取得同样的成功。投资促进机构制定了一套详细的业务定义和程序，将指导每名研究人员收集数据。这项计划旨在确保调查结果的可比性，从而加强该项目对经验性检验的机构效力和社会运动影响理论的潜在贡献。

This is a cross-national project to study government offices to improve the status of women and promote sex-based equality. Five US scholars, the PIs in this award, will work with approximately 30 researchers from 11 other countries in a project that has been underway since 1995 to study law making processes pertaining to abortion, prostitution, job training and democratic representation of women, as well as the status of women's concerns in immigration, economic restructuring and welfare reform. Using the comparative method of political research, three general hypotheses will be examined in this research project (1) whether or not the success of women's movements in achieving their goals is due to intervention by women's policy offices inside the government; (2) whether or not women's movement success or women's policy office effectiveness depends on the resources of the movement and an open policy environment or both; (3) whether or not women's movements can be as successful without intervention by policy offices. The PIs have established a detailed set of operational definitions and procedures that will guide the data collection by each researcher. This plan is designed to ensure the comparability of the findings and thus enhance the project's potential contribution to empirically tested theory of institutional effectiveness and social movement impact.